Last updated: Day 847 — Rain. Again.
You Found Us
If you’re reading this, you either picked up our shortwave frequency, followed a rumor from one of the other settlements, or your boat washed up on our beach like the rest of ours did. Either way — welcome. You’re probably cold, definitely hungry, and wondering if this is real.
It is. We are the Heceta Island Settlement, a community of 43 people living on 178 square kilometers of temperate rainforest in Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago. We’ve been here since shortly after The Correction — which is what we call the total systemic collapse of global capitalism and everything that depended on it, because that phrase is too long for Council meetings.
This site is our record. Our bulletin board. Our way of saying: we are here, we are alive, and we are learning how to stay that way.
What You Should Know First
This settlement exists because of one person: Qa ca yi.
He was already here when The Correction happened — a Tlingit man building a traditional house at the mouth of Chuck Creek, funded by a research grant, carrying a library of books and a lifetime of knowledge that the rest of us had spent centuries ignoring. When the world we built fell apart, his world was still standing. It had been standing for eight thousand years.
We showed up freezing and starving, and he let us stay on one condition: we learn. Not our way. His way. The way the people who lived on these islands since the glaciers retreated fed themselves, built shelter, understood the tides and the salmon and the forest and the rain.
Everything on this site flows from that agreement. If it sounds different from what you expected — if you came here looking for some kind of frontier survival story about rugged individuals conquering the wilderness — you’re in the wrong place. This is a story about people learning to listen to someone who already knew.
How to Use This Site
The Correction — What happened. How the world changed. How we ended up here.
The Old Ways — Eight thousand years of knowledge on these islands, and why it matters more than anything we brought with us.
Island Guide — Orientation for newcomers. Read this before you do anything.
Council Minutes — How we govern ourselves. Qa ca yi chairs. We listen.
The Larder — How we eat. Salmon, deer, Tlingit potatoes, and whatever the forest gives us.
Field Notes — Ecological observations. What lives here, what grows here, what we’re learning to see.
The Archives — The library. Books, cached websites, and the collected knowledge we’re trying to preserve.
Radio Log — What we hear from the outside. Other settlements. Other survivors. Other ways of rebuilding.
Trade Ledger — What we trade, with whom, and what we need.
The Map — Where things are. Tlingit place names first, because they were here first.
New Arrivals — Coming here? Start here.
Skills Registry — What people know. What people are learning. What we still need.
In Memoriam — Those we’ve lost. We remember all of them.
Heceta Island Settlement — Chuck Creek, Alaska
Est. Winter 2026
Founded on ground that was never empty.